Hart Seely, The Post-Standard

About Me:

I am a part-time reporter at the Post-Standard and the author of several books, including "The Juju Rules," (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), "O Holy Cow: The Selected Verses of Phil Rizzuto," (HarperCollins), "Pieces of Intelligence: The Existential Poetry of Donald Rumsfeld," (Simon & Schuster) and "Mrs. Goose Goes to Washington" (Simon & Schuster.) My works have appeared in National Lampoon, The New Yorker, The New York Times, National Lampoon, The New Republic, Slate.com, Salon.com and on National Public Radio. I live in Dewitt with my family and our mortgage.

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